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JakeSpain — Under the cover of clouds
Published: 2010-03-22 22:09:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 939; Favourites: 75; Downloads: 0
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Yesterday I took my Brother-in-law out for a lesson in landscape photography. Portraiture is more his style but as a member of a camera club he has a competition this month for landscape images.I drove him to Portland Bill which I knew would give him the best chance of capturing something. The light was soft and diffused by clouds most of the time which made exposures easy for him. As is typical on our small island here in Britain the clouds often hug the land and break out towards the horizon. These are conditions I am very familiar with and I knew that we would get a spectacular 10 minutes when the sun passed between the cloud and the horizon.
I left him for those 10 minutes and climbed down the rock face in front of us to capture a couple of shots myself.
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Ha, yeah, well put. I don't feel a stranger to you Steve, I like you. Lots of reasons for my absence from here (and from photography if I'm honest 
It's shit and I feel guilty not doing anything, we should arrange a photography weekend on the ol' moor mate.
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Wonderful colours! such a nice capture of the waves
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Very nice light Jake, liking the handling of the sky as a whole. Good work!
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Thanks Phil but looking at it now I wish I shot a seperate exposure for the sun but it still works I guess.
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Yeah I would feel the same way if it were my shot, as I do actually with many of my shots where the sun is a little overexposed.
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Great atmosphere, lovely light. Sharpening on that cliff feels a bit soft though. Not sure if it's just my screen though. Great work anyway dude!
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Not your screen, salt water smears on the filter I think, tried to clean them off in between shots but if was windy and just kept happening..... enhanced by the softnessaround the edges of the canon 17 40.....
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nice shot if that situation happens up here ya get a golden hue that affects the whole area did that happen here?
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No but often that happens. On this occasion the haze was too thick in the sky so any sunlight was very diminished.
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Thankyou, yep the best bit of the image.
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Great capture...particularly like the catch light on the rock in the bottom right.
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great capture but I feel the image is a little rushed and could have benifited from including more of the Arch in the rock and more space to the right of the sun, maybe a group of shots stitched together to get a wider angle.
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You are spot on guy, it is rushed and my position was not perfect and I should indeed have stitched.....I'm just so overjoyed to have got out and captured something.....
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haha I know how you feel, its not easy to get out often in good conditions
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It's not easy to find good conditions this winter.....
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stop the press!!! 
nicely done...
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Laughed out loud mate! I have been sooooo f**kin' busy and generally uninspired, I can't tell you.... How you doin' my friend?
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im doing good jake thanks for asking....fucked off with british grey and not being able to dedicate anytime to photography but other than that i cant complain....unless its about the government of course
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Weather's been better of late though, no?
Governments are just corporations now Steve and will do anything for profit and power and nothing for the good or moral future of our world. It's short term debt and long term pain.....
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hmmm last week yes....just been grey here for the last 4 days...im with you ...as you know...
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nice work mate. Should of said you were heading here - would of met you there! How was cornwall?
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I had my hands full, 2 students with me.....my brother-in-law and an old friend. It was rally busy down there with cameras chattering away.....
We should get out though, I really enjoyed it.
Cornwall was brilliant but I had little time to shoot and what I did won't be going on here.....
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send it over via email mate 
2 students eh? I was toying with going to Portland tonight (well Portland way - theres another piece of coast I want to go and check out) but depends on how the weather looks around 1.
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And I can go with you friends
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Hey, why not? We should meet up.
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I'm free on weekends but i'm busy on this weekend. But yes why not?!
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Was good to get out, thanks.
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